Improvement in handles for tea and coffee pots



AIBAYLEY.

HANDLES FOR TEA AND COFFEE POTS.

No. 190,807; Patented May15, 1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED BAYLEY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN HANDLES FOR TEA AND COFFEE POTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. I90,807. dated May 15, 1877; application filed February 7, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED BAYLEY, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new Process of Manufacturing and Forming from Sheet Metal a Handle for Tea and Coffee Pots and other vessels and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same. i

The nature of my invention consists in forming this same handle as below specified.

Figure I represents the shape of the metal previous to commencement of forming, it then being placed in a machine adapted for the purpose of folding the same into a hollow tube, as represented in Fig. II. It then being filled with melted metal, previous to being formed into shape, it is then placed into a machine to be formed into the desired shape, as represented in Fig. III, the handle being then dipped into a pit of hot metal, thereby causing the core to melt, leaving a perfectly hollow shell, bent as represented in Fig. III.

It will be seen that the upper end of the blank A, Fig. I, is cut away to form a recess, with two curved edges, :10 w, and that the lower end has a rounded projection, y, with two inwardly-curved edges, .90 w, and that when the blank is bent to a tubular form, as shown in Fig. II, the end edges, in consequence of the above-described peculiar form of the blank, coincide with a plane, and, further, that when the tube is bent to the form shown in Fig. III, the said edges t t are parallel or thereabout to each other, so that the cutting and trimming of the ends of the handle, heretofore indispensable, are rendered unnecessary. 7

I claim- The within-described improvement in making sheet-metal handles, the same consisting in first cutting a blank with a recess, 3 and curved edges at as at one end, and with a projection, y, and curved edges at" :12 at the other, and then forming said blank into a tube and bending until the ends are on the same plane, as set forth.

ALFRED BAYLEY.

Witnesses:

EDWARD DEVELIN, E. N. MILLER. 

